Ask Making A Bigger Bet On “Social Search” Or Q&A
Nov 18, 2009 at 8:33am ET by Greg Sterling
If you're the number four search engine in a market that is looking like it's going to be about two (maybe three) players in the long run, what do you do? If you're Barry Diller and running the parent company of Ask, the search engine in question, you're potentially looking at selling, with Microsoft as a logical buyer. That's all speculation at this point, however.
In the meantime, Ask is doing and trying a lot of things to keep users and redefine its role in this new, contracting or consolidating search landscape. Most recently it made a major push into shopping with "deals search." Anoth [...]
Filed in: Ask: Business Issues, Ask: General, Ask: Other, Ask: Web Search
9/11, Google & The Internet
Sep 11, 2009 at 9:28am ET by Barry Schwartz
As everyone knows, today is the 8th year anniversary of the terrible 9/11 attacks. Many people, companies and organizations are doing things to remember the day. A lot of people are asking why there is no logo from Google for today. The quick answer is that Google does not do Google Doodles (aka logos) for sad days like this, they typically only do these types of logos for happier occasions.
But that does not mean Google is not doing anything. They have partnered up with several organizations and companies to bring together a web site named Make History at 911history.org. The site ha [...]
Filed in: Ask: Other, Google: APIs, Google: General, Google: Logos, Google: Maps & Local, Microsoft: Bing, Top News
New Ask Datacenter Expands Search Capacity
Feb 11, 2009 at 11:21am ET by Greg Sterling
In the on again off again debate about whether Ask remains serious about search, a new blog post suggests that Ask is making a bid to improve its search index and efficiency, having completed a move to a new datacenter:
Our engineers were going to have to spend more time on improving efficiency, and less time on new feature development. So we've been in the planning stages for moving to new datacenter spaces since 2006, and we've executed the move of thousands of systems over the past several months . . .
We're excited about our new infrastructure position because it supports new and [...]
Filed in: Ask: Business Issues, Ask: General, Ask: Offices, Ask: Other
Cinco Doh! Mayo: Ask.com Spells Cinco De Mayo Wrong
May 5, 2008 at 2:19pm ET by Barry Schwartz
If you take a look at the Ask.com home page, you might notice a glaring typo on the Cinco de Mayo theme. Ask has spelled 'De' as "Do.' However, if you click through, Ask.com does link the result to the correct spelling.
Google is missing a logo completely, but Yahoo has a Flash logo up for the day. Here is the logo:
Hat tip to Best of the Web on the Cinco De Mayo Ask.com piece.
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Filed in: Ask: Other
Earth Day Logos From The Search Engine Industry
Apr 22, 2008 at 12:36pm ET by Barry Schwartz
As I posted earlier this morning, here is a quick compilation of logos for Earth Day from the search industry.
Google:
Yahoo (Flash version):
AOL:
Ask.com:
Cre8asite Forums:
Search Engine Roundtable (our theme, it actually glows):
Past Earth Day themes and logos from the search industry:
Google, Ask.com & Yahoo! Earth Day Logos, 2007
Search Engine Commemorate Earth Day 2006, 2006
Ask Jeeves & Google Earth Day, 2005
Google Commemorates Earth Day, 2004
[...]
Filed in: AOL: General, Ask: Other, Google: Logos, SEM Industry: Community, Yahoo: Other
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